adoptaspork
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If TL;DR, what is this and how should I treat it?
https://youtu.be/PPuoH3QgGSY
Hey, guys!
Wednesday or so of last week, my two year old female clownfish began hiding in the back of the tank under the rock work, panting heavily. In the tank, there is also a younger clown and six line wrasse. The wrasse has been around for about a year? now, and the small clown is the most recent addition. The other two were acting fine and looked fine visibly. Saturday, she looked like she was doing more poorly and was gasping near the bottom of the tank and only occasionally coming over to her anemone. I squinted at her for like an hour straight (being a crazy clown momma) and decided that maybe I saw some white flecks on her. Maybe. Paired with breathing issues, I figured parasite or ich.
I moved all three fish to my quarantine tank and began a cupramine treatment. I've been upping it by a quarter dose each day because the wrasse was getting stressed and I don't want to hurt him. If there is a parasite, though, he can't chill in the DT.
Today, I walked over to check on the fish in the QT and it looks like the female clown has something on her. There's white on her face, but I don't feel like it looks like ich. I've also considered velvet or brook, but am not as familiar with the identification of those. I took a video of her for a reference and will post here. The fish have been in cupramine for a couple of days now, not even up to the full dose yet, but should I be treating with something else? What is your suggestion? I had assumed if the cupramine was working, symptoms shouldn't seem to increase... Because now she definitely has something on her. If I change treatment methods, what is the best way to go about that since they're already in copper water? Pull all the water out, clean, and refill? Put the cuprasorb or whatever it's called in? Do dips in something else then return the fish to the cupramine water?
Thank you.
https://youtu.be/PPuoH3QgGSY
Hey, guys!
Wednesday or so of last week, my two year old female clownfish began hiding in the back of the tank under the rock work, panting heavily. In the tank, there is also a younger clown and six line wrasse. The wrasse has been around for about a year? now, and the small clown is the most recent addition. The other two were acting fine and looked fine visibly. Saturday, she looked like she was doing more poorly and was gasping near the bottom of the tank and only occasionally coming over to her anemone. I squinted at her for like an hour straight (being a crazy clown momma) and decided that maybe I saw some white flecks on her. Maybe. Paired with breathing issues, I figured parasite or ich.
I moved all three fish to my quarantine tank and began a cupramine treatment. I've been upping it by a quarter dose each day because the wrasse was getting stressed and I don't want to hurt him. If there is a parasite, though, he can't chill in the DT.
Today, I walked over to check on the fish in the QT and it looks like the female clown has something on her. There's white on her face, but I don't feel like it looks like ich. I've also considered velvet or brook, but am not as familiar with the identification of those. I took a video of her for a reference and will post here. The fish have been in cupramine for a couple of days now, not even up to the full dose yet, but should I be treating with something else? What is your suggestion? I had assumed if the cupramine was working, symptoms shouldn't seem to increase... Because now she definitely has something on her. If I change treatment methods, what is the best way to go about that since they're already in copper water? Pull all the water out, clean, and refill? Put the cuprasorb or whatever it's called in? Do dips in something else then return the fish to the cupramine water?
Thank you.
